infantize

English

Etymology

infant +‎ -ize

Verb

infantize (third-person singular simple present infantizes, present participle infantizing, simple past and past participle infantized)

1. (transitive) infantilize
   • 1992, Steinar Kvale, Psychology and postmodernism, page 117:

     Yet the patient is asked to play the stupid game, to infantize himself. Halfway houses with their stupid rules. Telling a thirty-year-old man who has committed no crime to be good or he will not get TV tonight.

   • 2008 April 1, William Yardley, “Washington State Debates Strict Bill on Child Products”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     “Are we ready to infantize 10-year-olds?” he said.